Innovation Fellows

INNOVATION FELLOWS

We work together with a number of service partners, often from the IT and design sectors. Innovation fellows are part-time colleagues who support individual project teams.

PIM VAN DE PAVOORDT (Developer at Qualogy)

Pim van de Pavoordt is a developer from Qualogy, currently working three days a week at the Peace Informatics Lab to get more experience in Data Science projects. He is currently working on two projects, namely Impact Tracker and Sex Disaggregation of Tweets for UNGP. In both projects he is working on analyzing large amounts of Twitter data to classify users and finding valuable information in all the data. Before he joined the projects at the Peace Informatics Lab he was a Java developer and Product Owner at Qualogy. Prior to working at Qualogy he studied at the Vrije Universiteit and received his MSc in Information Sciences. During his study he worked on projects using semantic web and machine learning technologies on political data.

PARISA ZAHEDI (Data Scientist at Risa-IT)

As a Professional Doctoral Engineer (PDEng program ), recently graduated from the wellknown post master program in the area of Software Technology from Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Following graduation from her BSc degree in Software Engineering back in her home country, Iran, she moved to Sweden to do her Master of Science in the area of Software Engineering. Meanwhile, she was accepted for the so called GSEEM program and won a scholarship for a Master of Science in the area of Computer Science at Vrije University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. During her study in Vrije University, she was acting also as a Teacher Assistance for few courses. The final project of her PDEng program in TU Eindhoven was in FEI Company where she was working on her thesis, entitled as A Big Data Management Platform for Rapidly Changing Environments. After the graduation, she joined RISA-IT as a data scientists.

Sjan Clabbers (Communications Specialist)

Sjan Clabbers is a communications professional who's passionate about working in humanitarian and development aid. She studied Applied Linguistics at the University of Utrecht and proceeded with a Masters in Communications and Journalism at the University of Nijmegen. Sjan gained working experience during her 6 months internship at the Ministry of Health (VWS) where she designed and executed a research project on the internal communications strategy, after which she started as a media consultant at the UN World Food Programme in Rome. Among other communications responsibilities, she wrote about the innovative methods such as data analysis WFP uses to monitor food insecurity. Through WFP she was introduced to the Centre for Innovation in the Hague, where she currently works on the overhaul of several websites. ​She believes that the complex issues that we face today must be researched, structured and written about in order to stimulate action. ​

Li Li Vuong (Data Scientist at AddYT)

​Li Li Vuong is a junior data scientist. At the Peace of Informatics lab, she’s working on projects to gain skills and expertise in data analysis. She graduated with honours in Accounting and Control at the University of Amsterdam. At her faculty she acted as vice-chairman at the student faculty council, as Teachers Assistant at several courses and as Research Assistant. As a descendant of war victims, she is passionate about the humanity. During her studies she followed interdisciplinary courses in education and anthropology to nurture her interests. She moved to the USA and followed a minor in Ethnic Studies, specifically Asian American studies at San Francisco State University, where she also acted as a board member, and chairman of the finance department of the International Education Exchange Council.

Nicolas Castellon (CGI)

Nicolas is Cyber Security Specialist and Project Manager at CGI Group, where he works in the Space, Defense and Intelligence sector on projects related to Data and Critical Infrastructure Protection. He is an Associate Fellow at the Peace Informatics Lab where he is contributing to the Data Governance Project in establishing the UN OCHA’s Data Framework.He has previously worked in public, private and non-governmental organizations such as the Centre for Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism of Leiden University, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York City, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS), and the Center of Technology and Society of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (CTS-FGV) in Rio de Janeiro. He is also on the Advisory Board of Global Partners Digital’s Cyber Capacity Building program. Nicolas earned an MSc in Crisis and Security Management (cum laude) from Leiden University’s Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs in The Hague.